Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
Quotes to Explore
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.
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There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.
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I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.
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I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.
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I'm in great shape considering I have hardware in my back. I work out constantly to keep my muscles limber and my abs strong so they can take the burnt of everything.
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I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.
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I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.
